My Favorite of Brinley

Going through My Pictures taken at the Star Mill, I came across this one of Brinley. She always has that cute little smile. And I just absolutely love her little mole on her nose.

Milling Around The Old Star Mill

My newest ambition is to be a Photographer. So for our Anniversary this year my sweet husband Brian bought me a camera to play around with, until I can enroll in photography classes at the local University. Which I'm shooting for the bgining of the year. So anyways, since Kyle and Brian were away on the deer hunt this weekend. I took the youngest three to the Star Mill for a little photo shoot.


I took this one especially for Brain. He always teases me about cutting peoples heads off.

Here's a cute one of Karson and Brinley.

Ashlynn is always good to pose for me (the other two... not so much) I got quite a few good ones of her that I will have to post later.

They didn't cooperate for long. While I was trying to photograph Karson, Brinley and Ashlynn came zooming by. I asked what they were doing. "Chasing Apples Mom!"

There was the apple tree next to the little creek. Brinley would shake the tree and the apples would float down the stream. And the girls would chase after them to see whose apple made it under the bridge first.

They had a good time and I pretty much gave up on getting them to pose and just let them play. I did however get some cute candid shots.

Brinley with her winning apple.

The END!

Wish I could Figure Out This Blogging Stuff

ARGH! I'm new to this blogging stuff, and I wish I could figure out how to do what I want it to do and figure WHY it does things that it SHOULDN'T. Like why is part of my sentence in the post below highlighted? And then why is there such a big empty space at the end of my post? I NEED LESSON!

Our Budding Sculptor

For Fourth Grade Social Studies this year, they are studying Utah History. One of the project was to sculpt someone famous. Ashlynn chose Sally Kanosh. Sally was an Indian girl who was adopted by Brigham Young and then later became wife to Chief Kanosh. I am so proud of her. Ashlynn is such a good student and she tries her best at everything she does. It took her over two hours to complete but she stuck with it and it turned out great.

Don't you think it looks "Just like" Sally Kanosh?

Ashlynn was so excited to take her Sculptor to school. She was very proud of it and thought it would be the best in her class. Although later she came home andtold me that it was only second best. Ashlynn you'll always be best in my book.

Granparents Day

Brinley's First grade class recently had Grandparents Day. Brinley was a little nevous that Grandma and Grandpa wouldn't be able to make it, since they had to come all the way from Vernal. But of course they came. They are so good about driving hours to come support their grandkids and then turn around and go home. But it meant the world to Brinley to have them there.

The kids did a short program for their grandparents had cookies and then took there granparents back to there class room, where the grandma's and grandpa's got to feel out a questionaire about what it was like when they were little kids.


Karson and I got to go the previous day to watch Brinley practice for Grandparents Day. She is quite an animated singer and so fun to watch. They did a great Job.

Oh HapPEE Day!

We are celebrating here at the Durrant houshold. After four kids and twelve years of changing dirty diapers I have finally been liberated. Karson FINALLY decided that diapers were for babies and he wasn't going to wear them anymore.

It was a long process. I started out by buying him a potty that sings a little song to you, while you are sitting on it. And then if you actaully "tinkle" you hear drum rolls and flashing lights go off and then you get a sticker! Quite elabotate I know, but I thought he would be so excited to use it. No... not so much. He wasn't too impressed. So my second route was to deny him cars. Karson is a little obsessed with cars. Usually when we are shopping at Wal Mart, I will let him pick out one of those $.97 match box cars to add to his collection. Plus it keeps him occupied while I shop. Well, I cut him off and told him he can't get a car until he went potty. That didn't work. For months we would go down the car aisle at the store and he would just say "When I go potty I get a car?" and I'd say "Yep when you go potty, I will get you a car." Brian even told him he would buy him what ever he wanted ...even a new Power Wheel car if he would just go pott!. At this point we were getting real sick of changing butts.

One day Karson came to me and said "Can I go outside and play?" to which I replied "As soon as you go potty, you can go outside." And that is when my life changed. He actually went right upstairs and went potty. I cannot tell you how happy I was. We have not had to change a diaper since then. Yeah! Silly I know. But I can't believe I finally have all my children out of diapers.

As a reward I took Karson to Toys r Us to pick out any toy he wants. He chose a Diego jeep with some animals. Diego is his favorite TV show right now. So now he plays along and rescues animals while he watches the TV show. I'm glad he didn't pick the $300 Power Wheel Car. Whew!


Now that karson is Officially a Big Boy we had to get him a big boy bed. Previously he was STILL in a crib (yes you can tell he was my baby and it was hard to accept that he was growing up). But now he has his car bed. So far we haven't had any problems of being scared and gettin out of bed (knock on wood).

Some I'm coming to the realization that my kids are growing up and I'm getting old. I don't know which one I'm having a harder time accepting.

Ready For Some Spartan Football.

This Year Saratoga Springs satarted their own Football League. The past three years Kyle had been playing on the Lehi team. But with all the growth and with the new high school coming next year in was time for a split.
For most of the boys on Kyle 7th Grade team, this was the first year they had played tackle football. Hence their team isn't the best 0-7 (smiles) but Kyle is still having fun, and they have improved tons since the first part of the season.

Kyle is playing the Center postion this year. He wasn't too sure if he was going to like it. It's a tough position. In the past he had always played tackle. But he is doing great there. He does get beat up a bit more and the older he gets the bigger the boys get. I'm always worried that he is going to get hurt.

That's Kyle holding back BIG 99!

I think Football is a great sport for boys. It very grueling physically it gets them into shape. But most of all there is no other sport that requires as much teamwork as football. In order to win Everyone has to do their part. These boys rely on one another. They have had the best coaches this year. I am amazed at how much time they VOLUNTEER. It's usually five days a week that theses men work all day and then come and work with these boys for a couple hours each night. Time they are away from their familes or other things they could be doing. As a parent I am very appeciative for how much time and effort they they put in to teaching my son football.